Re: make-kpkg doesn't work properly when compiling i386 kernel on amd64 host

2013-04-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article you write: >Hello, I am trying to build a kernel for my i386 PC on a amd64 server. > >I follow a old instrusion at >http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/07/msg00926.html . It can build >the kernel itself correctly, but the problem is script tools such as >genksyms are build as amd

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there anyone on this list who uses dosemu? I had it working on Sarge >ever since Sarge came out, but I am having trouble getting it to work on >Etch. If your PC is fast enough, why not use dosbox instead. It uses cpu-emu

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 20:54 -0500, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) >wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >> > [...] >> > Besides, you can't "wipe" files on a journaling fs. So, you re- >> > mount your ext3 partition as ext2, wip

Re: No shell, Only FTP access

2006-04-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:56 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >> > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 23:30 +0200, Øyvind Lode wrote: >> > [snip] >> > >> >>And yes I considering switching to proftpd but havn't got the

Re: amd64: why is sizeof(int) =4? why not =8?

2006-04-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 06:48 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I wanted to find out more about amd64, so I installed the debian distro > >Did you install the 64 bit version? > >> (etch/sid) on my amd64 dual core system

Re: Cleaning /tmp regularly using bootclean.sh + crond

2006-02-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Josep Serrano wrote: >>>On Friday 17 February 2006 07:29, Josep Serrano wrote: >>> Do you guys clean regularly your /tmp ? >>> >>>Yup. The tmpreaper package is great for that. >>> >> >> >> Yes, tmpreaper does the job.

Re: GMail like offline email client

2006-01-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ð ÐžÑ Ð°Ð»ÐžÐ¹ Ð Ñ ÐµÐœÐºÐŸ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >But it stores all threads like plain lists, not as treeview and that's >uncomfortable for me, or i'm mistaken an evo has the abiliti to handle >mailing-list and display them as trees? View -> Group by Threads

Re: Most directories locked read-only: how to unlock them?

2006-01-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Daniel B. wrote: > >> That looks like you mistyped "defaults" as "drfaults" in your >> /etc/fstab file. > > I was well aware that I mistyped "defaults" as my original post >indicated. I was also aware that this error cau

Re: Question: Maximum number of directories? OT question...

2005-12-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:46:14PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Gerorge Reece-Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> "

Re: Question: Maximum number of directories?

2005-12-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gerorge Reece-Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Jochen Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>You can see that / and /srv are ext3 and /var and /home are xfs. I >>chose xfs for these because they contain directories with a lot of >>files (the already mentioned Maildirs an

Re: [OT] SATA vs. SCSI

2005-10-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thursday 27 October 2005 20:59, Allan Wind wrote: >>On 2005-10-27T19:33:22-0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> Our first foray into using a scsi based commercial server resulted in >>> its getting converted to ata disks fairly r

Re: minicom display problems

2005-09-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I mercifully forgot everything I knew about terminals in the '80s, >But now I am puzzled by two purely theoretical questions: > >1) why don't LINE and COLUMN get listed when I run "printenv"? Because the resize command prints out t

Re: minicom display problems

2005-09-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there any way to get minicom to properly display the color graphics >of an ncurses app like iptraf? I am using the multi GNOME terminal as my >X terminal, but xterm seems to have the same problems. > >So far I've tried: >-settin

Re: Every fifth character blurred in text

2005-09-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Xeno Campanoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm not that familiar with the kind of words I should use for this video >problem with every sixth character blurred. I wonder if there's another >word I should use for google searches? Can anyone make a suggestion? Do

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bryan Donlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 8/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Can anyone suggest a tutorial on writing what I think are called init >> scripts? > >Take a look at the files in /etc/init.d, just use one of them as a >templat

Re: kPDF

2005-08-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks for that source, put it in, ran apt-get update and then apt-get sintall >acroread when it was done I sintaleld the suggested acroread-plugins as well. >opened up each file continuously of TUX, with out it crashing. It'

Re: why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

2005-07-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:04 -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Does anyone know why Linux can't seem to maintain a diald-dialed serial &g

Re: why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

2005-07-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does anyone know why Linux can't seem to maintain a diald-dialed serial >PPP connection while performing lots of disk I/O, especially on a PIO-mode >IDE disk? Because the IDE driver turns off interrupt processing completely when

Re: fsck on ext3 drives. Do we need to routinely? how to shut off or change 30 boot/180 day settings or why should I not?

2005-07-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mitchell Laks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Maybe I am really not supposed to reboot my machine? >But how can I stop 180 days from passing? >:) > >1. How do I modify this to 100 boots or 500 days or never? man tune2fs. Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Quad-port Fast Ethernet on Debian

2005-06-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >But using VLAN is much more administaration and risking >mal configuration. Depends. Once you're used to handling VLANs, it makes _so_ many things _that_ much simpler that you cannot imagine ever having lived without it.

Re: Quad-port Fast Ethernet on Debian

2005-06-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am after some general advice or info on people's experiences with quad >port ethernet cards. Any assistance would be much appreciated. > >For this, I am specifically looking to use *quad* port ethernet cards, >due to the

Re: MySQL Performance Woody Vs Sarge

2005-06-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Simon: >>> Jacob S wrote: >>> >>> # hdparm /dev/hde >>> [...] >>> # hdparm /dev/hdg >> >> Again, I think you are searching in the wrong direction. Your 'hdparm >> -tT' results clearly showed that the great

Re: Move from i386 to ia64?

2005-05-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 5/26/05, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Can I upgrade the kernel without upgrading the userspace apps? > >If you'd run in 64 bit mode - No. In fact, you can. I built a 64 bits kernel on my amd64 worksta

Re: Use of dual CPU?

2005-05-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Adam Mercer ha scritto: > >>On 23/05/05, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>So, normally, even if i use an SMP kernel if i'm not telling the program >>>to use both CPU it will continue using only one CPU,

Re: How to enable a user access to fsck at boot up.

2005-05-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ivan Teliatnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Good day. > >When machine reboots and there is problem with file system one has an >option to enter root password and user fsck utility to check and fix >file system errors. > >I think this is done via sulogin utility an

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phil Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Miquel van Smoorenburg said: > >>>> If you want to keep updates from starting the daemon, just chmod 644 it. >>> >>>That sounds reasonable

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phil Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >David Clymer wrote: >> >> The debian post install script probably doest go through the rc.* >> directories looking for runlevel entries since these are all just >> symlinks to a

Re: kernel2.6 I cannot login

2005-01-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Massa Takeuti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My keyboard is a PS/2 American style 104 keyboard. >My mouce is a PS/2 wheel mouce. >I can use them for 2.4 kernel without any trouble. > >I show you my kernel configuration. Hmm, looks like the keyboard/mouse driver is not

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On 2004.12.29 16:20, Robert Waldner wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:30:27 +0100, Robert Waldner writes: >>No, kill(-1, SIGWHATEVER) is guaranteed to kill all processes >>/except/ the caller. "man 2 kill" on any unix/linux box. What kernel >>are you using, this might be a kernel bug. Is this an i386 o

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On 2004.12.28 17:42, Robert Waldner wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:40:48 +0100, Robert Waldner writes: >>>Hmm, can it be that killall5 doesn't actually manage to *not* kill >>> itself? >>Ofcourse it goes through great lengths to do exactly that - NOT >>kill itself. It kills all processes _except_ it

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 12:25:08 +0100, John Smith writes: >>On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 10:48 +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: >>> I have a HP DL380 here with Sarge (current as of now) on it. Problem > >> It must be one of the most men

Re: crontab every 5 minutes?

2004-12-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joao Clemente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Now, I must wonder: Is there a way to "shift" this by a wanted value? >(for instance, when x MOD y = 1, something like putting into cron the >instance (*/5)+1 ? It would run at 1,6,11,16,21, ... Is it possible? Perhaps 1

Re: howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At Thursday, 16 December 2004, you wrote: > >>Thanks for the reply, but I still haven't cleared my doubt. >>I'll cut the relevant part of the reply (relevant for what I'm trying >to >>understand) and comment at th

Re: run levels 1 and S

2004-12-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Are there any differences between the run-levels 1 and S? I know >that S10single is not executed for S, but init spawns sulogin >directly. Any functional differences? Runlevel S doesn't have start/stop scripts. Runlevel

Re: M$ Frontpage Replacement ?

2004-12-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nayyar Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello All, > >Is there any as good as M$ Frontpage and flexible >website development tool, which could give all >those luxarires present in Frontpage. Nvu, http://nvu.com/ ? Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: LC_LANG and Init

2004-12-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >how can I set environment variables for processes listed in >/etc/inittab? Especially LC_LANG which is needed for correct running >(german umlauts) of a backup client. aa:2:respawn:/bin/sh 'LC_LANG=de_whatever

Re: OT? hypertread on or off for SMP kernel

2004-12-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >However, for one simple test (v.low memory, v.low comms, high compute) >case which is Fortran90 compiled using mpich, I actually found turning >HT off helped -- when it was on then for -np 2 there was no speed up >(top implied the

Re: login into a particular directory using ssh

2004-12-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 17:18:54 -0500, David Mandelberg ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "sh -c 'cd dirname; exec somecommand'" >> >> somecommand is the command you want to run after cd'ing. E.g. if y

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How might one save and restore setting of variables in a bash script to and >from a file in one's home (or sub-) directory? Okay so everybody's trying to outdo eachother trying to write sed scripts that do proper quoting. I'

Re: Making my USB based "webcam" work

2004-11-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Just picked up a cheap USB based webcam, and I'm trying to figure out >how to use it with Debian. > >lsusb reports 04fC;0561 Sunplus Technology Co, Ltd. > >When I plug it in it's detectd but not claimed by any driver. > >How do I go

Re: sysv-rc-conf breaks sysvinit

2004-11-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've filed a bugreport against sysv-rc. I meant sysv-rc-config, ofcourse. Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sysv-rc-conf breaks sysvinit

2004-11-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Trounson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I recently tried to apt-get install sysv-rc-conf, since rcconf seems to >have dropped off the repos, and got this: > >Unpacking sysv-rc (from .../sysv-rc_2.86-5_all.deb) ... >dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/s

Re: where are debian boot-messages logged?

2004-11-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bram Mertens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On my desktop (running SuSE 8.2) the messages printed to tty1 when the >machine is booting are stored in /var/log/boot.msg. On my laptop I >can't find any file in /var/log/ that contains these messages. Suse uses bootlogd f

Re: autofs or am-utils?

2004-11-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If I just want my USB pen drive to be automounted & dismounted, >it sounds like autofs would be the one to use, then. Or supermount. That's a seperate kernel patch, though. http://supermount-ng.sourceforge.net/ http://ck.kol

Re: BIG filesystems, Big Files, Transparent Compression?

2004-11-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >(see below for long story background ) > >The last time I created a large HW RAID5 volume (1.6 TB) the kernel was >unable to see all of it... If I create several smaller block devices >(like 400GB each) can LVM bind them toget

Re: Where is the key for the password files stored?

2004-10-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Where is the key used to decrypt the passwords (shadow) files stored? >I want to reinstall an old redhat system with debian, but I wish to >preserve old users and passwords to ease the transition process. You can't decrypt

Re: Can't umount / at shutdown

2004-10-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Friday 15 October 2004 15:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >wrote: >>init 1 root 10u FIFO3,6176334 /dev/initctl > >It is this "init" process, apparently. I have had the same problem with recent >2.6.* kern

Re: Can't umount / at shutdown

2004-10-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pau Capdevila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've added a probe in the umount rc script to see what's opened just >before trying to umount filesystems. I can see the following > >COMMANDPID USER FD TYPE DEVICESIZE NODE NAME >lsof 2401 root1w

Re: NFS slow/lockups

2004-10-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:05:21PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: >> Just to show its not networking problems, I have resorted to copying >the files >> via scp - even encrypted I am getting about 0.5Mb/sec > >That's horrible! Is

Re: change /dev/console owner to user logged on console?

2004-10-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc D Ronell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The following message is a courtesy copy of an article >that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.user as well. > >>> "Miquel" == Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: change /dev/console owner to user logged on console?

2004-10-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc D Ronell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Under Debian, is there a method which allows any user directly logged >onto the host and using the host's keyboard and monitor to take >ownership of some that host's devices? pam_console Mike. -- "In times of un

Re: More on umount problems on shutdown

2004-10-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Several posters, including myself, have cited problems umounting the file >systems on shutdown with recent 2.6.8 kernels. This may be caused by timing >problems leaving the file systems busy. I got rid of the error messages

Re: sysvinit/gnome/display bug report

2004-10-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arjen Dragt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am trying to determine the best category under which >to file a Debian bug report. >The symptoms (completely repeatable) are that trying >to change to runlevel S (via telinit or init) does not >work, insteat causes my screen

Re: running fsck on root

2004-09-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've my drive setup like this: > >/dev/hdb1 /boot dos >/dev/hdb2 / xfs >/dev/hdb3 /usr/local xfs >/dev/hdb5 /u01 xfs >/dev/hdb6 swap > > >I've tried shutting down to single-user mode and then remounting / as ro >but all the xf

Re: `who -d' Dead processes

2004-09-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Floris Bruynooghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I had a computer (old PC) running at my student house over the holidays >and was using it (as I am now) to ssh into and do my normal work etc. >Just by accident I discovered the `who -d' command and saw I had a >couple o

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Harrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The problem >is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I goto '/' and >run 'du -x' it says that about 500Mb are being used. This is about what

Re: Orderly dismount at shutdown?

2004-08-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Now that I have my multi-partition file system up and running: One of the >partitions (mounted /usr/share) does not dismount in an orderly manner on >shutdown. I get messages like: > Illegal seek >...hdb6 not mounted ..

Re: Exim4 return-path header

2004-08-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >I use Exim4 with Sarge and have a little configuration problem regarding >mail headers. > >What should I do in order to have "Return-path" and "Sender" headers added >by Exim to be exactly the same as the "From" header crea

Re: /dev/pts/0: Operation not permitted

2004-08-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When I do a su - sysadm on one server with Woody I get the error >message in the subject line. That happens only when su to sysadm is >being used. > >Apart from the error message everything seems work normally: > >14:40:38 [E

Re: Where's routed?

2004-08-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Check out the package zebra. Replaces routed and ripd. >http://www.zebra.org/ Zebra has been superseded by quagga, http://www.quagga.net/ Mike. -- The question is, what is a "manamanap". The question is, who cares ? -- To UNSUB

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Rus Foster wrote: > >> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: >> >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> where does the domain name of a debain stored? >>> is there anyway to change it? >> >> >

Re: OT: Which tool, and how, to get partial string from file?

2004-08-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 09:46:52PM -0500, Kent West wrote: How can I test to see if the word "tuber" is in the /etc/passwd file, reliably, and take an action if it is, and take a different action if it's not,

Re: OT: Which tool, and how, to get partial string from file?

2004-08-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>A programmer would know this . . , but not me

Re: OT: Which tool, and how, to get partial string from file?

2004-08-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A programmer would know this . . , but not me ;-) > >I'm using a script to build a file by concatenating portions of two >other files. Then end result needs to be checked to make sure a certain >word shows up in a line. > >I

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Gear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >WA9ALS - John wrote: >> Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would >> someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the >> simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with R

Re: bad shutdown

2004-08-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think I have a CD-ROM going south. I started the KDE CD ripper flummy, and >then immediately stopped it. I wound up with a kaudiocreator process hung up >eating system CPU cycles and making my hard disk do unpleasant sounding

Re: kill process by name

2004-08-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 07:58:02PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: >>On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 19:29, Muratorio, Diego wrote: >>> Hello Rick, I am looking for the same, did you find something about >>> kill process by name? >>>

Re: exim? imap?

2004-08-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm running a debian woody server, using exim (I believe -- actually, >I have whatever Debian installs as default, which I believe is >exim), and I have peen persuaded that I should change over to imap. You don't change over

Re: Exim "From " header

2004-07-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Master_PE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Op za 24-07-2004, om 13:17 schreef Vincent Lefevre: >> On 2004-07-24 11:00:59 +0200, Master_PE wrote: >> > I already touth that my Pop3 client is broken. But thats nothing i can >> > do about. I use Maildir as a format. >> >>

Re: nfs locking daemon?

2004-07-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a special "nfs locking daemon" for NFS-clients? > >I'm running a server with nfs-kernel-server and on the server there is a >"lockd" process. If I try to log into GNOME 2.2 on the client (which has >nfs-mounted

Re: migration of Maildir to new system. Also advice wanted on performance

2004-07-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pim Bliek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Unfortunately I didn't get a reply earlier, so maybe my questions were >too vague or mail-guru's are on holiday :). Anyway, I will try to make >it more clear which way I am thinking. > >I did some hours of research and for me th

Re: moving an installed Debian system onto RAID-1

2004-07-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 18:05:20 -0000, "Miquel van Smoorenburg" writes: >>>I've got an installed Debian system which I want to move to RAID-1. > >>Try this: >> >>

Re: moving an installed Debian system onto RAID-1

2004-07-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've got an installed Debian system which I want to move to RAID-1. Try this: http://www.miquels.cistron.nl/raid/ Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: pppoa package available?

2004-07-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Russell D Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DSL recently became available in my rural area, and I subscribed. I >use a linux stable machine as a firewall and >gateway for my home lan, accessing the dsl modem via an ethernet port. >My provider advises me that the

Re: 2.4.26 upgrade => no auto power off

2004-06-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Glenn Meehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just upgraded my kernel from 2.4.18 to 2.4.26 and now my system won't >auto power down. >I am running testing/unstable. What version of sysvinit are you running? 2.85-16 had a bug that caused this. Has been fixed in the cu

Re: handling runlevels independently with update-rc.d

2004-06-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sebastian Kügler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It's probably easier to use `ln -s` than to get update-rc.d working as >> you would like. > >I am now using symlinking rather than update-rc.d, and it seems to work fine. Sure, until policy changes, the internal implem

Re: kernel 2.6.6 - why shutting down my hard drives while rebooting?

2004-05-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Roberto Sanchez 2004. május 13. 01:51 dátummal ezt írta: >> Thomas Adam wrote: >> > --- LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>Hello! >> >> >> >> >> >>well. I think this is something with a misconfigured kernel, >> >> because this isn

Re: bootlogd: ioctl (/dev/ttyzf, TIOCCONS): Bad file descriptor

2004-05-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Niels L. Ellegaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just looked at my system (Sarge/sid/linux-image-2.6.5-386), and it >seems that my bootlogd is not running. It does not create a >/var/log/bootlogd and at some point during the boot process I get the >following error. >

Re: RAID performance

2004-04-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As for filesystems, I personally prefer ReiserFS, but that's just >> personal preference. If you're comfortable with ext3, then by all >> means use ext3. > >ditto, reiserfs is a better choice than ext3 > > see the reiser

Re: software raid and lvm

2004-04-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Sidelinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm trying to find some documentation how installing testing on a system >using root on software raid1 and lmv. I've done some searching around >and most of the stuff I have seen is for the 3.0 installer and not the >new d

Re: /tmp clean at boot time

2004-04-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Umar Draz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >hi dears > > i have woody with kernel 2.4.25 (now i have install mysql through >source) its working . > > now when i reboot my machine. during boot up /tmp directory is clean >and also mysql.sock delete thats why mysql serve

Re: sid: udev dependency problem

2004-04-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Lorenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >The following occurs when I try to install a new version of udev... >seems to be caused by 'initscripts', which is - I have no idea why - not >installed on my system... > >not sure if I should file a bug. seem

Re: libc6 - initscripts conflict

2004-04-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Axel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, >I am trying to upgrade libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 to libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11 in Sid, >but I get this error: >dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_i386.deb >(--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/etc/default/devpt

Re: /dev/pts/X not getting reused

2004-04-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, since some days ago, I've noticed that pts devices are not being >reused. I mean, the usual behavior was: open a xterm, which gets e.g. >pts/7, close it, open another one, which will get pts/7 again. Now it'd >get pts/8,

Re: What's the mistake in this init script?

2004-04-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Adam Funk wrote: > >> Sometimes /etc/init.d/exim restart stops but doesn't restart >> the exim daemon. Does anyone see anything wrong? > >Maybe the sleep interval is too short, and Exim doesn't finish exiting >before the script

Re: how to do/repair a raid1 missing disk install (was: Re: lilo + raid = disaster (again))

2004-03-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Antony Gelberg wrote: >> sector, and I'm tired of it. If you don't have time to make it into a >> howto, let me know and I'll do it. > >Please do it :-) I lack the time to write (and main

Re: Promise or 3Ware? - booting

2004-03-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 01:08:50, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > The problem with software raid is that if the first (boot) disk > > goes south, the system won't boot anymore. If you're using RAID1 > > just for data integ

Re: Promise or 3Ware?

2004-03-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wednesday 24 March 2004 18.58, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: >> I now need to buy some hardware to set up a 2-disk RAID-1 array for a >> server. The server will run debian with kernel 2.6. The cost

Re: Concurrent connections on file server

2004-03-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Short answer: A lot of connections, not really. > >Long answer: Well, TCP/IP only allows for something like 65535 >concurrent connections... .. per remote host. Mike. -- Netu, v qba'g yvxr gur cynvagrkg :) -- To UNSUBS

Re: Severe network slowdown

2004-03-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, F.L. Tak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm having very strage network problems with Woody. A seemingly random >amount of time after the machine has booted (I've seen it happen after a >few days, but also after a few hours), all network traffic slows to >almost a hal

Re: Missing /var/log/wtmp

2004-02-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >am running debian unstable. I seem to be missing /var/log/wtmp >from my system. I have searched debian >and found no file by that name in the package contents searches. I >searched google; I did >find some correspon

Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-02-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Miquel van Smoorenburg" wrote in part: >> A thought just hit me. >> What if we added a "update-rc.d enable|disable" command? > >This has already been wished for. See s

Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-01-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Note that the expectation of the System V init system is >that every service have either an S or a K symlink in each >runlevel. If there is no symlink for a service in a particular >runlevel then the behavior of sysv's invoke

Re: postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

2004-01-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nano Nano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 01:21:46AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> On 2004-01-30 14:57:37 -0800, Nano Nano wrote: >> > Aha, that explains why the 2nd message worked: I have a mutt rule that >> > adds the correct From for list-

Re: Exim vs Procmail (was: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others)

2004-01-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 2004-01-30 18:34:17 +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> See http://www.exim.org/ . Click on "Documentation and FAQs". > >There are several things I don't like: Yo

Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 2004-01-30 09:03:28 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: >> Exim does not need an MDA and has its own user-level filtering. > >But the man page is far from being clear and incomplete (compared to >the procmail man pages). > >Fi

Re: postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

2004-01-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nano Nano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 09:53:43PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: >> >> Configuration: Internet with smarthost >> Append .domain? No >> Smtp relay host? My ISPs smtp server >> Final destination domains? >> --->Force synchronous upd

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nano Nano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:29:02PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >Not to mention the fact

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Not to mention the fact that the US is following more than one thread by >being by far the largest donor of aid to poorer nations Google for "foreign aid usa denmark netherlands" and you'll find things like http://www.just1wo

Re: Fwd: xfs_force_shutdown(md(9,0),0x8) called from line 1070 of file xfs_trans.c.

2004-01-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, alberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >we're having nasty problems an our new raid on a linux box: >When performing hevy i/o (in present case was scp -r), the disks >get disconnected with this kernel message: > >- >Dec 3 15:55:34 machine sshd(pam_unix)[1791]: s

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